If something is drastically reduced or killed, especially in number, you can say it was decimated. "The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico decimated the wildlife along the coast."
To take the tenth part of; to tithe.
Verb
kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"
Verb
kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies
v. t.
To take the tenth part of; to tithe.
v. t.
To select by lot and punish with death every tenth man
of; as, to decimate a regiment as a punishment for mutiny.
v. t.
To destroy a considerable part of; as, to decimate an
army in battle; to decimate a people by disease.
Decimate
To take the tenth part of; to tithe.
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